Education

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Economic Development Land Use Local Economic Development Property Urban Development

Audrey McFarlane is a Professor of Law at University of Baltimore School of Law. Her research and teaching focus on areas of law related to race, class and economic development. Her most recent works have focused on designing new communities: how constitutional doctrine should reflect the different types of cities that adopt inclusionary housing and also how mixed income housing does and does not promote racial and class integration. Professor McFarlane has also written on a range of topics including how norms of property law contribute to recurrent foreclosure crises, the insights of critical race theory for eminent domain and regulatory takings, and democratic theoretical justifications for community participation in economic development. She has been a visiting professor at Northeastern School of Law, Seattle University School of Law and University of Maryland School of Law.

Professor McFarlane has an A.B. from Harvard-Radcliffe and a J.D. from Stanford Law School where she was a member of the Stanford Law Review. She joined the University of Baltimore School of Law faculty after clerking for the Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and working as an associate at the Washington D.C. law firm of Wilmer Cutler and Pickering. At UB, she teaches courses in Property, Land Use, Local Government and Local Economic Development.